I find that tensions are rising, and with it will be the frequency of events like this...be alert and watch your back.
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Fight the Power is Best Hip Hop Song Ever
Public Enemy...--definately in the top 3 all-time favorite group category.
VH-1 Says PE's Fight the Power is Best Hip Hop Song Ever
VH-1 Says PE's Fight the Power is Best Hip Hop Song Ever
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Tuesday, July 1, 2008
Environmental Degradation and the Self: The Link between the Two
Where does environmental degradation start?
It starts with our unnatural inclination to want more than we need.
And where does this want come from?
It comes from the idea of self.
It comes from the feeling of self.
It comes from the experience that we are an individual, separate from everything else.
It comes from the belief and the understanding and the experience that we are not One with everything and everyone in this Creation.
So, naturally, with this as our root, we want more: we want to load this self with all the food, acquisitions, honor, experiences, and influence that we can.
And where does it lead us?
We travel the world telling people they should live green lives. How much of the time does this result in a positive for the environment?
We load ourselves up with experience after experience, each of which are supposed to help us to live lighter, live greener. Do attending and participating in these events help us to live lighter compared to the resources used to get to these experiences and participate in them?
We gain honor for our efforts to do good, but how much does that make us feel “alright, I am doing good enough, I am helping to save the world” when we have yet to crack the ice and dive down into the ocean of righteousnous.
We acquire more green goods than a city in an undeveloped world has in basic necessities and we feel that we are “green” because of all these toys and positive labels on extraneous goods, goods which are actually often robbing the earth of its materials and polluting all that we live on. These are often goods that did not need to be bought but with the money of which we could have planted forests and given back to the earth we are taking so generously from.
We eat more food in half our lifetime than we need in two lifetimes, perhaps.
The ’self’ starts it all.
We do not realize we are the earth, we are the living beings laboring to make all the foods and products we consume and hoard in ourselves, for ourselves. We do not realize we are all tied together, physically on the physical level, mentally on the mental level, and spiritually on the spiritual level, and all that we give we will receive, and all that we take we will have to give, and everything we hoard we will have to pay the price for — not just the price in dollars but the price in every ounce of labor, of thought, and of life that went into the making of that product, the creation of that good.
If we are to give ourselves for the greater benefit of all, we are to find that is more fruitful than gaining anything for ourselves.
But we have to be clear what it means to ‘give ourselves for the greater benefit of all.’ We have to be clear that gaining anything, for ourselves, without further directing that to the greater benefit of all, is a losing battle in which we win ten shillings and then lose it all to vainglory, self, pride, and unnatural wants for our own self, believing again that we can gain from taking.
The self is a cover of duality,
but underneath it all is a oneness,
and within it all, even, is the same oneness.
So, underneath and above and within are all the same thing. And we lose by thinking we can win for ourselves, that we are not just trading one arm for another, one life for another, and one pain for another, and, in the instance of freedom, we win when we realize we are loving all and that is the way to receive the all-embracing, all-loving Love we are searching for, forever and forever more.
The wave says to the ocean, “I am separate,” until it crashes down hard on its face and says, “I am You.”
Love, if you would like the world to love you back.
Give, if you would like the world to give to you what you need.
Let go of your own self, if you would like to be at peace and one with the whole world.
It is the self, imposing itself more than it needs, that starves the self of all that it needs. Its need is the whole creation itself, down to the smallest particle of love, life, or energy, whatever you may prefer to call it. And it receives that, by giving its all.
And the physical receives by giving not by taking.
And the mental receives by giving not by taking.
And life itself receives by giving not by taking.
For more on this subject, read The Book of Mirdad by Mikhail Naimy, read The Gift: Poems by Hafiz by Daniel Ladinsky, take a look at Listening to Nature by Joseph Cornell, or search your own heart and mind, search for your own essence in life.
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Tuesday, June 24, 2008
Contaminants in Flood Waters Threaten Food Part I: Who is Watching?
Farming near a river bed is a great idea until it floods. Soil near riverbeds tends to be more fertile, producing more abundant crops. But when the river beds flood and drench contiguous farm land, the water can drag unwanted contaminants to the farmland, exposing health risks to anyone eating the crops from the flooded land. What kinds of contaminants? Anything in the flooded water: machine oil, sewage, garbage, medical waste, manure.
As a Midwesterner and a doctor with an interest in both public health and food, I really wanted to find out who in the federal government was monitoring food grown on flooded farms to make sure it stays safe, and then blog about it. So far, I have not found the federal agency responsible for monitoring the safety of food grown on flooded farms. I checked first with the Centers for Disease Control, but the spokesperson there said they only monitored disease outbreaks after they had started occurring. She suggested I call the Environmental Protection Agency. The woman I spoke with in media relations at the EPA here in Chicago also said that her agency was not responsible for food safety, only environmental toxins (I kind of thought they were linked), and suggested I call the Federal Emergency Management Agency. Now FEMA has gotten a bum rap since they kind of forgot to rescue tens of thousands of people in New Orleans when that city floodedin 2005, so I decided to give the agency a break and not push too hard. I asked a FEMA spokesperson in Wisconsin about food safety, one of the states hit hard by flooding and she set me straight: “We normally don’t even deal with that issue.”
So now I am asking you, dear Planetsave reader: Can you help me learn who is keeping our food supply safe? Please contact me with your suggestions in the comment section.
Photo thanks to Shannonpatrick17 at flickr.com.
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Friday, May 30, 2008
busy with the new
several new projects are swirling around the past couple of days. most of them involve writing and they are all jumbling together in my head. i cant complain tho bcuz they are all fun. thank you universe. new big things on the horizon. i will keep you posted as they manifest.
Wednesday, May 28, 2008
everyone i speak to...
says they don't know whats gonna happen next. well one thing you do know is that nothing is gonna change for the better anytime soon. if anything it will only get worse. the increases in the price of barrels of oil wont hit the gas pumps for six months, and with that the price of everything else will ascend into the stratosphere. some will be affected more than others but all will be affected. we need to blaze a new trail. we need to remain nimble and not stiff and inflexible....be on our toes and not on our heels. be ready for whatever cuz these are uncharted waters and desperation will be off the charts.
life is changing
just wanted to go on record. things aren't the same. things will never be the same. the way things were is no more...by things i mean life as we know it. we all need to reassess the situation and act accordingly. our learned behaviors will not help us during this test. we will need to think on our feet...we will need to think clearly...and clearly we will need to think.
Monday, March 3, 2008
Sunday, March 2, 2008
whatta ride!
it was a tanktop & no helmet kinda day breezy and beautiful we didnt go far but just far enough to get away for a minute ya know what i mean
heyall!
been up for a while now Its sunday morning looks like a beautiful day is ahead looks like a great day for a motorcycle ride hmmmmm be right back
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